IDS's post on the Olympics set me thinking a bit. Though the title of my post refers to Bangalore, we can substitute "any Indian mega city" in its place.
Bangalore today is very different from the Bangalore in which I grew up (70s and 80s). I won't get into that too much.
There have been numerous debates on wether we take metro underground or do we have it on elevated structures..these have been mostly related to the following:
I would suggest we start building an Olympic park near Bangalore so we can bid for 2020 olympics. Of the BRIC countries only we havent won the bid to host an Olympics yet. The economy is booming and we can get some funding/private participation now.